I also could not enable desktop effects, but i am using nvidia hw.
--> lspci
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce Go 7600] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0090
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 6
Region 0: Memory at d1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Region 1: Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Region 3: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Region 5: I/O ports at 2000 [size=128] Capabilities: <access denied>
$ compiz
Checking for Xgl: not present.
No whitelisted driver found
aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity
Fenstermanager-Warnung: In der Konfigurationsdatenbank gefundenes »« ist kein zulässiger Wert für die Tastenkombination »toggle_s
I also could not enable desktop effects, but i am using nvidia hw.
--> lspci
Capabilities: <access denied>
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce Go 7600] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0090
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 6
Region 0: Memory at d1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Region 1: Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Region 3: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Region 5: I/O ports at 2000 [size=128]
$ compiz Warnung: In der Konfigurationsd atenbank gefundenes »« ist kein zulässiger Wert für die Tastenkombination »toggle_s
Checking for Xgl: not present.
No whitelisted driver found
aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity
Fenstermanager-
It worked fine with tribe3.